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Review: Top Five (TIFF 2014)

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: A superstar comedian (Chris Rock) spends an afternoon exploring his old Brooklyn neighbourhood with a reporter (Rosario Dawson) who’s profiling him for the New York Times. REVIEW: Where the heck did this come from??? While Chris Rock is without...

Review: Manglehorn (TIFF 2014)

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: An elderly key maker (Al Pacino) lives a quiet life in a small town while pining for his long-long love. REVIEW: MANGLEHORN seems to be director David Gordon Green’s attempt at telling a fable, with his typical, dreamy approach...

Review: This Is Where I Leave You (TIFF 2014)

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: The combative Altman family is reunited after their patriarch dies. Now, to full-fill his last request, the grown children (Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, Corey Stoll, Adam Driver) and their mother (Jane Fonda) have to sit Shiva together for seven...

Review: The Connection (TIFF 2014)

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: A magistrate (Jean Dujardin) stationed in Marseilles in the seventies, tries to dismantle the infamous “French Connection” which is supplying millions of dollars worth of heroin to the United States. His main target is the kingpin (Gilles Lellouche) at...

Review: Big Game (TIFF 2014)

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: In a small Finnish village, tradition states that when a boy turns thirteen, he must venture into the woods alone to hunt, and bring a trophy back to his people. Young Oskari (Omni Tommila) is the son of the...

Review: The Good Lie (TIFF 2014)

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: Four Sudanese refugees are brought to the United States, where they struggle to adapt to a society that seems alien to them with the help of a brash employment agent (Reese Witherspoon). REVIEW: THE GOOD LIE is the kind...

Review: Revenge of the Green Dragons (TIFF 2014)

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: In the late-eighties/early nineties, a violent gang of Chinese immigrants take the NYC underworld by storm, building up an empire focused on drug smuggling and human trafficking. REVIEW: REVENGE OF THE GREEN DRAGONS is one of the few TIFF...

Review: 99 Homes (TIFF 2014)

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: A newly evicted single dad (Andrew Garfield) goes to work for the greedy real estate broker (Michael Shannon) who took his family home. REVIEW: 99 HOMES is one of those movies that just grabs you by the balls from...

Review: The Theory of Everything (TIFF 2014)

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: The story of Stephen Hawking (Eddie Redmayne) and his first wife Jane (Felicity Jones) from their early courtship, to his eventual diagnosis and physical decline from motor neurone disease and scientific breakthroughs. REVIEW: I’ve seen a lot of good...

Review: Escobar: Paradise Lost (TIFF 2014)

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: Nick (Josh Hutcherson) is a Canadian tourist travelling through Columbia. He meets and falls in love with a young woman (Claudia Traisac) who just happens to be the niece of cocaine-kingpin Pablo Escobar (Benicio Del Toro). Escobar quickly warms...

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